DIFFERENCES

DIFFERENCES is a DCL command that compares the contents of two disk files and displays a listing of the records that do not match.

DIFFERENCES is invoked with DIFF.EXE.

Syntax

DIFFERENCES  input1-filespec [input2-filespec]

Qualifiers

• /CHANGE_BAR - marks differences using the specified character: e.g. /CHANGE_BAR=#
• /COMMENT_DELIMITER - ignores characters on a line to the right of (and including) a specified comment character:
  • COLON
  • COMMA
  • EXCLAMATION
  • FORM_FEED
  • LEFT bracket
  • RIGHT bracket
  • SEMI_COLON
  • SLASH
  • SPACE
• /EXACT: use with the /PAGE=SAVE and /SEARCH qualifiers to specify a search string that must match the search string exactly and must be enclosed with quotation marks
• /HIGHLIGHT: use with the /PAGE=SAVE and /SEARCH qualifiers to specify the type of highlighting you want when a search string is found (BOLD, BLINK, REVERSE, and UNDERLINE)
• /IGNORE
• /MATCH
• /MAXIMUM_DIFFERENCES
• /MERGED
• /MODENUMBER
• /OUTPUT
• /PAGE
• /PARALLEL
• /SEARCH
• /SEPARATED
• /SLP
• /WIDTH
• /WINDOW
• /WRAP